Should we have health warnings on alcohol?

British doctors want to include cigarette-style warnings on alcohol and to prevent drinks firms sponsoring sport.

The alliance of 70 medical bodies and health charities is demanding that:

• A third of the label on all cans and bottles of alcohol should be given over to a hard-hitting warning about the health dangers of
over-consumption

• A ban on all alcohol advertising and sponsorship. That would stop alcohol manufacturers paying millions to have their name on teams' shirts or in
the title of a competition – such as Budweiser, which sponsors the FA Cup in England

• Drink sales in shops and supermarkets should be restricted to certain times, and alcohol products sold only in designated areas, to reduce
"pre-loading" – in which people drink cheaper shop-bought alcohol before going out

• A hike in the price of high-strength products, such as certain wines, to discourage consumption

I can theoretically get cancer from my first puff off of a cigarette, but in reality, I can go buy a bottle of Jagermeister or (insert favorite brand
here) LARGE ENOUGH TO GIVE MULTIPLE PEOPLE ALCOHOL POISONING!

Let's think about this for a second. Sure, I can also buy enough aspirin to OD too, BUT IT TELLS YOU WHEN TOO MUCH IS TOO MUCH RIGHT ON THE
LABEL!

We should put warning labels on people who drive the normal mentally insane.

I'm still going smoke and drink with those labels on. You only live once. And I might as well enjoy the time I got without worrying about every
little thing that's going make me completely ill devastated.

Seriously, people need to get off their ar&& rather than huddled around so much information that they let every little thing consume them, their
lives and ours.

One was killed in a drunk driving accident,the other succumbed to years of degradation to his liver and pancreas. I just think there needs to be a
better way to meter consumption, like bottles that can only pour 50ml at a time or something. I don't have the answers, but it's absurd that anyone
over the age of 21 can go into any liquor store and buy one bottle that will kill you if you drink it all.

Bad idea. Big warning labels explaining how dangerous something is equals twice as many under aged kids finding it absolutely necessary to try
it out at even younger ages than they do now. Want to make sure kids do something? Make a really big deal about why they shouldn't do it.

Guess you should put that on the foods you eat, air you breathe, and anything else about life. That just about covers it in a nutshell.

A lot of foods do have warnings, like the safe handling instructions label on raw chicken. It tells you your food may contain bacteria that could
make you severely ill if mishandled or not cooked properly.

...And I never almost died from air poisoning, so not too worried about that.

Bad idea. Big warning labels explaining how dangerous something is equals twice as many under aged kids finding it absolutely necessary to try
it out at even younger ages than they do now. Want to make sure kids do something? Make a really big deal about why they shouldn't do it.

Um, WAAAAAAY more kids drink alcohol than smoke cigarettes.

Alcohol is the worst drug on this planet. I've drank a ton. I would know. It does need warnings. So many people think it's safe. It's not.

Wait till your near a propane tank explosion plant, then you tell me how you don't get air poisoning. Couldn't breathe all night nor smoke. And that
will last for hours if not days in your lungs. And not to mention all the car smog inducers. No, there's no air poisoning.

Wait till your near a propane tank explosion plant, then you tell me how you don't get air poisoning. Couldn't breathe all night nor smoke. And that
will last for hours if not days in your lungs. And not to mention all the car smog inducers. No, there's no air poisoning.

Well, it's not the air hurting you. It's the propane...which has plenty of warnings. Also, they do have air quality alerts to warn people if it
gets bad.

It wasn't my explosion, it was a business that went up in flames from propane. Nobody in the area could breath properly. I'm sure they got labels, but
someone working there didn't adhere to the label. Everyone else suffered the consequence. And it's not like we had warnings to get out because of air
quality.

We have those in America. Funny thing, those alcoholics aren't know for taking warnings very seriously. I just wonder if the UK is going to go as
hard core as they did with the anti-smoking campaign, where they showed pictures of nasty looking lungs (that debatably may not have been pictures of
a human lung, but that's a conspiracy for a different day)

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